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eventually bring on the larger
and more
important question of providing
Inpply of one uniform
and
a constant
undefaced
Dollar
which shall be established as the stand and
of value in this place, and serve to supersede
the present system of pryments by weight defacen Silver - The attention
in miseeds and
of the Chamber will continue to be directed
to this interesting subject,
period they
and at some
future
Solicit
Your Excellency's
may Cooperation in devising practical. Measures
to supply this great desideratum.
We have ten
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Extract of a letter from the I Solbackinje
I.
to Sir. Hercules Robinson
reply to the
gladly give my opinions in
four querico put in your note
of yester day--
I am
of opinion that the proposed system, by which the dollar and it's parto would become the only legal tender in Heonghing, wooned bee scarcely recognized - beyond the Government office, if the issue of subsidiary Coins
Cent
prieces.
weere limited to
The Cent would be too large.
the daily domestic purposes of the
Chinese, and they womed attach no
(Signed)
I. Macandrew,
for
(
b. M. Murray,
(
) W. Walkinshaw,
(
(Ime copy)
Walter Ormiston.
WH Alexander
Acting Colonial Secretard.
fixed
I
to their
idea of value to it in reference
Cash, to which they would